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Moving target: How mistrust is fuelling a deadly Ebola hotspot in east Congo

A nurse at the Kitatumba Ebola treatment center disinfects himself after treating an Ebola patient at the facility run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo species, in Butembo, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, September 23, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

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Cyclosporiasis outbreak exposes a weakened US public health system

FILE PHOTO: Lettuce grows on a farm near Salinas, California, U.S., August 11, 2026. REUTERS/Fred Greaves/File Photo

WHO's Tedros says Ebola response must be scaled up to tackle Congo outbreak

FILE PHOTO: Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tours the Evangelical Medical Center (CEM), one of the facilities at the forefront of the response to the Ebola outbreak during his visit to coordinate the response to the Ebola outbreak, as agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 31, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/ File Photo

Attacks on healthcare in conflict zones averaging more than four a day in 2026, World Health Organization says

FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises during an Israeli raid at Al Shifa hospital and the area around it, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza City, March 21, 2024. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas/File Photo

Gaza cancer patients face rising death rate amid Israeli curbs, doctors say

Displaced Palestinian cancer patient Khuloud Abu Sahmoud, 33, sitting with her children in an UNRWA school where she is sheltering in the southern Gaza Strip, on Aug 8.

NKF pushes for more sustainable dialysis to reduce carbon footprint and ease staff’s back pain

Nurse Chembali Ambujakshan Dhanyamol, tops up the acid concentrate for the Haemodialysis machine, for a patient at NKF. The introduction of the Centralised Acid Concentrate Delivery System system has reduced the need for caregivers to carry the acid concentrate containers, and in turn the medical waste generated.

Kidney patient’s son carries on legacy of donating to NKF

SUTL chairman and chief executive Arthur Tay continues his father’s legacy of supporting NKF’s dialysis and sustainability efforts.

Aid group says seven Americans quarantining at Kenya Ebola facility after US travel ban

A member of the M23 rebel group stands guard as provincial authorities visit the Rodolphe Merieux Laboratory, National Biomedical Research Institute (INRB), where samples from suspected Ebola cases are tested, as part of the response to the epidemic in Goma, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, May 19, 2026. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo

Ebola patients, responders flee attack on Congo hospital

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